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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 23,2022. Database of human nutrition research and research training activities supported by the federal government. Information regarding trends in nutrition research, specific institutions and investigators involved in this research, or areas of agency emphases can be obtained from database searches or from published summary reports. Data for the system is prepared and submitted by participating agencies, and is updated annually. The database contains several thousand projects for each of fiscal years 1985present. Participating agencies include the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Veteran Affairs, the Agency for International Development, the Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Curated database of aging and life history in animals, including extensive longevity records and complementary traits for > 4000 vertebrate species. AnAge was primarily developed for comparative biology studies, in particular studies of longevity and aging, but can also be useful for ecological and conservation studies and as a reference for zoos and field biologists.

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• SciCrunch
• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Coordinates nutritional sciences-related research and research training across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and among Federal Agencies by providing mechanisms to communicate research, research training, policy, and education initiatives. The DNRC facilitates the exchange of information, coordinates workshops and seminars on critical issues, encourages national and international research collaborations, and serves as the NIH primary point of contact for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and other agencies, departments, and organizations in matters pertaining to nutritional sciences and physical activity. Through its dedicated efforts to promote scientific policy reviews, innovative research, interagency collaboration, and technical advancements, the DNRC strives to define the increasing roles of nutritional sciences and physical activity in health promotion and disease prevention and treatment.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Publications from a multi-center, longitudinal, observational study examining the risk factors associated with the long-term complications of type 1 diabetes. The study began in 1994 and follows the 1441 participants previously enrolled in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT), http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/control/index.aspx. The primary aim of EDIC is to examine the long-term effects of conventional vs. intensive diabetes treatment received during the DCCT on the subsequent development and progression of microvascular, neuropathic and cardiovascular complications. This involves studying the influence of genetic factors and other factors such as HbA1c, blood pressure, lipid levels, and treatment modalities on the development and progression of these complications. Annual or biennial measurements (using DCCT methods, standardized protocols and central laboratories) of vascular events, albumin excretion, GFR, ECG, ankle-brachial BP index, serum lipids and HbA1c allows the following analyses: 1) continuation of intention-to-treat analyses to determine long-term effects of prior separation of glycemic levels; 2) risk factors for macrovascular outcomes; 3) correlation of progression of micro- and macrovascular outcomes. The current updated version of the EDIC Protocol is available for download. EDIC is made up of 28 clinical centers, one data coordinating center and one clinical coordinating center.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

Data set and biosepecimens of a multi-center clinical trial to determine if treatment with beta-cell antigens can delay the onset of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (Type 1 DM) in non-diabetic relatives of persons with Type 1 DM. Insulin is a well characterized antigen specifically produced by beta-cells, and it was used for this purpose in the initial DPT-1 studies. The protocol for high risk subjects uses daily subcutaneous insulin injections and an annual course of intravenous insulin treatment, while the protocol for intermediate risk subjects uses daily doses of insulin administered orally. Neither injected nor oral insulin at the doses used were observed to delay or prevent diabetes, although further studies are needed to test whether oral insulin can delay diabetes in people in the intermediate risk group with high titers of insulin autoantibodies.

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Collect, analyze, and communicate on comprehensive and current data on all islet/beta cell transplants in human recipients performed in North America, as well as some European and Australian centers to expedite progress and promote safety in islet/beta cell transplantation. This site serves as a repository for general information concerning protocols, clinical transplantation sites, publications, and other information of interest to the general community. Annual Reports are available. Islet/beta cell transplantation is a complex procedure with many factors contributing to the outcome. Compiling and analyzing data from all transplant centers in the US, Canada, as well as some European and Australian centers will accelerate the identification of both critical risk factors and key determinants of success and thereby guide transplant centers in developing and refining islet/beta cell transplant protocols. The inclusion of the term collaborative in the name of the Registry emphasizes the importance of collaboration in fulfilling the CITR mission and goals. Close collaboration with the transplant centers will ensure that relevant questions are addressed, that data submitted are accurate and complete, and that the needs of the transplant community are served. Information on how to participate as a CITR Transplant Center and to receive a transplant center application is available through the website. Progress in islet transplantation depends entirely on complete, high-quality medical data, including the information patients consented to report to the Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry. To make it as easy as possible to provide updated information about patient's health, an on-line questionnaire is available or patients can mail it to their transplant center. This information is very important in the continuing search for a cure for Type 1 diabetes.

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

A bioinformatics application that allows users to combine digital map data with information about biological sequences collected from the environment. It provides a 3D graphical interface in which the user can navigate and explore the data, as well as a Python interface that allows easy scripting of statistical analyses using the Rpy libraries.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

A set of tools for analysing tiling array ChIP/chip, DNAse hypersensitivity, or other experiments that result in regions of the genome showing enrichment. It does not rely on a specific array technology (although the array should be a tiling array), is very general (can be applied in experiments resulting in regions of enrichment), and is very insensitive to array noise or normalization methods. It is also very fast and can be applied on whole-genome tiling array experiments quite easily with enough memory.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Clinical research network for gathering prospective data and bio-samples on acute liver failure in adults since 1998. Clinical histories and laboratory and outcome data are available. Sample types include serum, plasma, urine, DNA, and liver tissue.

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Software tool as multi platform medical image processing and visualization software. Functionalities include 2D/3D/4D image visualization, image registration, diffusion MR processing and tractography, filtering.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Repository of biospecimen and phenotype data collected from Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis cases and controls recruited at six sites throughout North America that are available to the scientific community. Phenotyping is performed using a standardized protocol, and lymphoblastoid cell lines are established for each subject. Phenotype data for each subject are collected by the Consortium's Data Coordinating Center (DCC), and phenotype data for all subjects with DNA samples are available. The resulting DNA samples have already been utilized by the Consortium to complete various association studies, including genome-wide association studies using dense genotyping arrays. Researchers can obtain DNA samples and phenotype, genotype, and pedigree data through the Data Repository. GWAS data must be requested through dbGAP. The IBDGC is involved with independent genetic research studies and actively works with members of the IBD and genetic communities on collaborative projects. They are also members of the International IBD Genetics Consortium. Phenotype Tools: The Consortium Phenotype Committee, led by Dr. Hillary Steinhart designed and validated paper forms to collect extensive phenotype data on Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis. Consortium phenotype tools are available for use by non-Consortium members.

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Database of information of spa-typing of MRSA, or Staphylococcus aureus, that can be used to collate and harmonize data from various geographic regions.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Software package that implements a method for normalizing microarray intensities, both between colours within array, and between arrays. The method uses a robust variant of the maximum-likelihood estimator for the stochastic model of microarray data described in the references. The model incorporates data calibration (a.k.a. normalization), a model for the dependence of the variance on the mean intensity, and a variance stabilizing data transformation. Differences between transformed intensities are analogous to normalized log-ratios. However, in contrast to the latter, their variance is independent of the mean, and they are usually more sensitive and specific in detecting differential transcription.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Software library containing tools for statistical manipulations of data. Tools include profile hidden Markov models for biological sequence analysis, RNA structure analysis, and a prototype noncoding RNA genefinder.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

Cytoscape plugin that provides a high-performance implementation of an interface for the Spanning-tree Progression Analysis of Density-normalized Events (SPADE) algorithm for tree-based analysis and visualization of high-dimensional cytometry data.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

A collection of tools for flow cytometer and application setup, data acquisition, and data analysis that help streamline flow cytometry workflows. It provides features to help users integrate flow systems into new application areas, including index sorting for stem cell and single-cell applications, as well as automation protocols for high-throughput and robotic laboratories.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Search engine for the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. It contains databases such as PubMed, EST, and BioSystems.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

An interactive web application for visualizing genomic data of sequenced prokaryotic chromosomes. It allows users to carry out various analyses such as mapping alignments of homologous genes to other genomes, mapping of short sequencing reads to a reference chromosome, and calculating DNA properties such as curvature or stacking energy along the chromosome. The GeneWiz browser produces an interactive graphic that enables zooming from a global scale down to single nucleotides, without changing the size of the plot. Its ability to disproportionally zoom provides optimal readability and increased functionality compared to other browsers. The tool allows the user to select the display of various genomic features, color setting and data ranges. Custom numerical data can be added to the plot allowing, for example, visualization of gene expression and regulation data. Further, standard atlases are pre-generated for all prokaryotic genomes available in GenBank, providing a fast overview of all available genomes, including recently deposited genome sequences.

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• 16 years ago - by Anonymous

Department at the Wake Forest University's School of Medicine that hosts physicians who specialize in neurological topics such as neuromuscular disease, epilepsy, pediatric neurology, strokes, neuropsychology, neurosonology, and neurorehabilitaiton.

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• 17 years ago - by Anonymous

EEG base is a system for storage and management of EEG/ERP resources - data, metadata, tools and materials related to EEG/ERP experiments. EEG base advances electrophysiology research by enabling access to public data, tools and results of research groups. The system essentially offers the following set of features (the set of accessible features depends on a specific user role): * User authentication * Storage, update, and download of EEG/ERP data and metadata * Storage, update and download of EEG/ERP experimental design (experimental scenarios) * Storage, update and download of data related to testing subjects * Fulltext search * Sharing of knowledge and working in groups The system is based on tree layer architecture (MVC pattern) consisting of persistent layer (relational database), application layer (object oriented code, object relational mapping from persistence layer) and presentation layer (JSP). The persistence layer uses Hibernate framework; Oracle 11g database server is used to ensure the processing of large data files. Application and presentation layers are designed and implemented using Spring technology. This framework supports MVC architecture, Dependency injection and Aspect Oriented Programming. There were no significant difficulties with integration of both frameworks, Hibernate and Spring MVC. Spring Security framework is used to ensure management of authentication and user roles. Since the system is thought to be finally open to the whole EEG/ERP community it is necessary to protect EEG/ERP data and metadata, and especially personal data of testing subjects stored in the database from an unauthorized access. Then a restricted user policy is applied and user roles are introduced. The complete overview of the system features and user roles (use case diagram) is available in (Pergler 2009). Concerning the architectural layers there is a question which layer is more feasible for mapping of its structure into ontology. Currently we have studied two possibilities: * Mapping from the persistence layer (relational database) * Mapping from the application layer (object oriented code) The mapping from the application layer to an ontology includes the precedent object relational mapping provided by Hibernate framework.

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• SciCrunch
• 16 years ago - by Anonymous